So, the days just keep coming and going. Then the weeks, too. I can’t believe we’re into the last week of February! Here in New Jersey, winter hasn’t been too bad! (Knock on a ball of yarn!) Lots of my extra warm scarves and ultra-warm turtleneck sweaters have been lounging in the closet this season, […]

Oh, I have been bad! Well, not bad in the bad sense of the word, but just remiss or missing in action, I guess. Weeks go by and I can’t get a blog post out there! But, it is the Season. (Actually, only one of those candles above should be rose-colored, and the other three, […]

Today we will be heading over to Seaside, NJ to bid a fond farewell to ONE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER!! Like I commented on Facebook, it has been a superlatively spectacular summer in New Jersey this year! Every weekend has looked like this! We’ve been there a lot this year; and it has always been throbbing with […]

Learn knitting because there’s nothing to do. How many times when we were kids did we run to our mothers with that age-old lament, “but, Mom, there’s nothing’s to do!” Especially on those oppressively hot and humid days when nothing seemed to be moving; no one ventured out of doors because it was awful! Once […]

Do you use a yarn ball winder or are you still looking? I love anything that will make my knitting easier! Whether I find lighter needles or a new line of yarn that floats effortlessly along, I like everything that just gives us a little extra boost when we pick up our yarn and needles. […]

Knitting patterns that are amazing can be found if you really look hard enough. Just do a “knitting patterns” search on Google or wherever, and up pops numerous pages of links that may help you and then again, may not. And besides, who wants to go through 9, 430,000 search results anyway! My life would […]

Knitting Lace, a book review for you! I love lace knitting. What can I say? It has always intrigued me, a little like a professor years ago telling our British History class that she wasn’t going into the “Wars of the Roses” because it was “too complicated, with too many players” to talk about. THAT […]

The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Knitting – a review for you! Once in a while I think back to those days, a long time ago, when I was just learning how to knit. In the VERY beginning, I think I stuck with practice squares; just going over the knit and purl stitches again and again […]

Knitting books abound. It seems one or two new ones are published every week. While I enjoy poking through the newest books for adult knitters, it’s also fun to see what authors are writing for future generations of knitters, too. Because I believe that the best things in life are hand-made. Seems they come straight […]

Just a quick post to tell you about some very cute yarn! But, before I get to that, let me tell you this. For my birthday, one of the gifts I received from my daughter, Stephanie, was a little book of indulgences. I’m not talking about the Catholic kind, either, for all you Catholics out […]

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I use this book over and over again. The borders and stitches here are simply sublime. I also love reading about these wonderful women and the lives they led and the passions they immersed themselves in.